Description:
Katarzyna Lecky investigates how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks alongside portable cartography, to examine the ways in which canonical writers represented the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown.
Review Quotes: "an impressive book ... This cogent and original book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of early modern print markets and publics." -- David J. Baker, Modern Philology